Assessment of production management in Brazilian coffee regions

• Grant number: 13/24933-6
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: March 01, 2014
• End date: February 29, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Economics - Agrarian and Natural Resource Economics
• Principal Investigator: Flávia Maria de Mello Bliska
• Grantee: Flávia Maria de Mello Bliska
• Host Institution: Instituto Agronômico (IAC). Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios (APTA). Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento (São Paulo - Estado). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Antonio Bliska Junior ; Patricia Helena Nogueira Turco ; Paulo Ademar Martins Leal ; Ricardo Firetti ; Sergio Gomes Tôsto

Abstract

The concern with respect to quality management has continually grows between companies from different economic sectors. The development of internal management systems has become essential to maintain or increase the competitiveness of micro and small businesses around the world, for a continuous increase in the satisfaction and trust of customers, reducing internal costs, increased productivity, improve the image and processes and access to new markets. For companies in the coffee industry the reality is similar: the creation of internal management mechanisms is important, since the improvement of agricultural processes until to place the product in the target market. The identification of the degree of management of the activities of these companies, simply and rapidly, by applying the Model Identification Management Degree - MIGG, contributes to the structuring of their business in an organized manner and to obtain superior finished products. The objective of this proposal is to provide subsidies to raise the level of quality management in enterprises - farms - of the coffee sector, in the major producing regions of Brazil, to enable their survival or long-term growth. (AU)